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Last modified: October 26, 2001

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." - Henry David Thoreau (as quoted in Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s "Welcome to the Monkey House")

"Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt.  Donate it to the Salvation Army instead.  They'll clean it and put it on a hanger.  Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents." -   William Coronel

"Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence on society." - Mark Twain

"No man ever listened himself out of a job." - Calvin Coolidge

"It's more satisfying to live richly than die rich." -- Sir Thomas Browne

"Don't confuse having a career with having a life. They are not the same." -- Hillary Clinton

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." -- John Ruskin

"It's easier to be forgiven than it is to get something approved." - contributed by J.D. Booth (jdbooth@ebtech.net)

"If a hole is in the wrong place, no amount of digging is going to put it in the right place." - Edward de Bono

"If it weren't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done." - Michael S. Troyton

"$100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000--by which time it will be worth nothing." - Robert A. Heinlein

"The problem with the rat race is even if you win you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin

"This, then, is the dish that Microsoft has served up by expanding its definition of the desktop.  It wasn't enough for Gates to control the gateway to every user's personal data and applications; he had to control the gateway to the entire infosphere as well.  That kind of hubris is almost enough to make you cheer on Klein and his minions, if it weren't for the inevitable paralysis and consumer wariness that will strike the high-tech world as the suit drags on." - Steven Johnson, FEED, on the Microsoft trial

"We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized.    I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." - Petronius (Roman writer, ?-A.D. 66). Quotation contributed by Jorge Ponce (jorge.ponce@ms01.do.treas.sprint.com)

"Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings." - George F. Will

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford

"640K of computer memory ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981

"Let's face the obvious. Yesterday we were nerds.  Today we're the cognitive elite. Let's conquer." - Chester G. Edwards

"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable." - Robert A. Heinlein

"Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You got to make the damn thing work. I'll never give up, for I may have a streak of luck before I die." - Thomas Edison (contributed by Anton Skorucak askoruca@physics1.usc.edu)

"The man with a new idea is a crank, until the idea succeeds." - Mark Twain

"In the business world, an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something, and the switchboard operator knows everything." - Harold Cofflin

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